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Ruth Kenyon was talking earnestly
to the girl who sat next her in the
train from Northampton one June day.
"No everything is over between
John Baker and me," she was saying
vehemently. "Frances, I sent that
.gentleman an invitation to the junior
prom, two months ago, and he not on­
ly never answered the letter, but went
to the prom, with another girl. Such
rudeness! I've sent back all his pres­
ents and never want to see Wm again.
But, for that matter, I suppose I shall
•as I get home. He lives just next
•door and always goes home as soon
^as college is out."
"Why, Ruth," suddenly ejaculated
her friend, looking out of the window.
"Here's your station. Hurry, dear, or
you'll be late. Good-by, and we'll meet
again at Smith in September."
"Poor John Baker, Jr.! I pity him
when they meet," she added to herself,
as she watched Ruth seize her um­
brella and suit case and hurry off the
car.
Farrington, the driver of the old yel­
low coach that connected the little
out-of-the-way town of Thorndale with
the rest of the world, was looking up
and down the platform. His old eyes
brightened when he say Ruth. "Ben
hopin' yer'd come on that train," he
cried, taking her baggage checks.
"Jump right in. There's only one
other passenger and I reckon you know
him."
He opened the coach door and the
girl stepped in. With a crack of the
whip they were off, almost before Ruth
had time to recognize in her fellow
passenger—John Baker, Jr.
"Good evening," she said, coldly.
"Good evening," was his equally
chilly reply. John Baker became at
once absorbed in the evening's news.
The coach jolted on over hills and
hollows.
'Pears to me," remarked old Far­
rington, putting his head in the win­
dow, "ye ain't got so much to say to
each other as usual. Your folks go
in' to meet yer at the village, Miss
Ruth?"
"They don't expect me tonight,"Ruth
answered brightly. "But Jerry always
"RUTH," HE CRIED, "ARE YOU
BADLY HURT?"
comes down about this time for the
mail, and I shall ride back with him."
"John goin' with yer?"
"If he likes," she said, stiffly.
"I shall walk tonight. I'm not go­
ing directly home," came decidedly
from John Baker, buried behind his
paper.
"Oho!" said old Farrington, softly.
He shook his head once or twice, but
•said no more. "Don't see your wagon
hereabouts, Miss Ruth," he ventured
to remark as he handed down her suit
•case at the end of the route.
"It will be right along, and I'm in
no hurry." And she sat down on the
poctofflce steps to wait. John Bakar
•strode off without a word.
The minutes passed, but no wagon
camp. After a time the postmistress
•came to the door." "You ain't waiting
for your Jerry, I hope, Miss Kenyon,"
=she said, "for he said this morning he
wasn't coming down again today."
"Thank you," replied the girl, with
rather a vexed laugh. "Then I must
walk." She picked up her suit case
and started down the long, dusty road.
The spirits of our college girl drooped
•as, SUB prodded on in the hot summer
4wilight,.from' time, jto
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time'* shifting
irom*one hSnd to the other* her heavy
•dress suit c^se. She began to think
resentfully of all she had crammed in­
to it at the last moment, particularly
•of seventeen different photographs of
the same Yale junior, all of them dat­
ed before that junior prom.
Then there was a sharp step behind
her. Looking quickly back, she con­
fronted—John Baker.
"Ruth!" he said, angrily, "they told
me you had started, so I followed.
This is no place for a girl to be alone."
He glanced about, at the gathering
darkness. "Let me carry that suit
case it's too heavy for you."
Ruth Kenyon suddenly straightened
'like a ramrod, and her eyes flashed,
but she made no answer. John Ba­
ker's wrath blazed higher. "Miss
Kenyon) I must find out what all this
•outrageous treatment of me means. I
•will not stand it any longer."
"I will not discuss thje matter now,
ICr. Baker," she broke in. Baker wip­
ed a perspiring brow and gave up in
despair.
The walk seemed endless,'^but at last
the Kenyon house appeared at the end
of a long pasture, which was separated
from the road by a high stone wall.
Before John Baker noticed what she
was going to do, Ruth had turned,
placed her suit case on top "of the wall
and climbed up herself.
How it happened neither of them
never clearly knew. Instantly there
was a rolling sound, a crash, and a
moment later John was over the 'wall
lifting the girl's prostrate figure from
the ground. In his excitement he
forgot everything except that the girl
he loved lay motionless before him.
"Ruth," he cried brokenly, "are you
hurt badly? Speak, dear!" At his
words she staggered to her feet. "I'm
not hurt much. That case made me
slip," she said, but her lips were pale
and trembling. "Thank you," she
added, as he handed her a letter which
lay on the ground where she had fall­
en. In the bright moonlight she read
the address written in her own hand­
writing, Mr. John Baker, Jr., Yale
University, New Haven, Conn.
"John!" she cried, suddenly facing
him. "Light a match." And a minute
later, "John Baker," she sobbed, "it
was all my fault. I thought you were­
n't a gentleman for not answering my
invitation to th^ junior pronienade,
when I nevei mailed the letter. It
must have been in that suit case all
this time. Can we ever be friends
again, John?"
"No," said he, springing forward
with a cry of joy. "We can't be sim­
ply friends. It's got to be something
more than friends this time, Ruth."
John Baker paused on his front door­
step before going in that night to look
up at a bright light in the house next
door. "Poor girl* she did hurt her­
self," he said gently. "And it was
all on account of that plaguey suit
case. 'But I was desperate, and it gave
me a chance to tell her how I feel
about us two, anyway'.' He laughed
softly, then opened the door and went
in.—Boston Post.
HIS OWN DEATH NOTICE.
It .Didn't Exactly Flatter the Conceited
Man.
"Some people., are so c.razy, to see
their""ttanErefs xi L, St 1Q7 Sh amateur
cynic the other day, according to the
New Orleans Times-Democrat, "that
they would be willing to die if they
could only read their death notices."
"Did you ever actually know of a case
of that kind?" asked an old reporter
in the group. "I can't say I ever did,"
replied the amateur cynic. "Well, I
have," said the reporter. "The star
actor in the little affair was a lumber­
man, and a pretty well-known lumber­
man, tod. He doesn't live hereabouts
now, and I suppose it would be safe to
tell the story. This lumberman con­
ceived the idea he was a very valuable
and popular citizen in the community
where he lived. The hallucination was
unshared by any of his fellow-beings,
but it had such a firm hold on his mind
that on one occasion, when he was in
New York, he decided to wire home
that he had been found dead, merely
to get a chance to peruse the eulogies
he felt certain would appear in the lo­
cal papers. He intended, of course, to
telegraph later on that it was all a
mistake. Well, he sent the first mes­
sage, signing some fictitious name, and
awaited developments. In a couple of
days the local papers came to hand,and
when he read"them he nearly had a
fit. They had at once adopted the
theory that he died from the results
of a big spree and printed a spicy re­
sume of his past career to support the
hypothesis. They also intimated that
the community could struggle along
very nicely without him. After he had
digested these pleasing tributes he con­
cluded not to send the other telegram,
but to return ip person and pay his
respects to the editors. I have forgot­
ten now which licked, -but the affair
was the talk of the section for months
and effectually cured the lumberman
of any hungering for newspaper noto­
riety. -By the way, this yarn is letter
true. The incident occurred in
Texas.
Something About Shoe taces.
It seems ridiculous to think that
fashion regulates even the sort of shoe
laces one wears, but it does to a cer­
tain extent at least. The very smartest
shoe lace is wide, the wider the better,
is of silk, and most notable of all, has
no metal tags at the ends. The strings
shSuld be tied in a large bow and the
ends allowed to 'hang but, when the
footwear gives all possible evidence of
being up-to-date. They look very pret­
ty, these laces, but one wonders what
their effect would be on the temper" if,
tipless as they are, they had to be laced
and unlaced whe'never the shoes were
assumed. Happilx they are used only
in low.footwear, and are so/long that
they may be loosened sufficiently to al­
low the( foot to slip out, so this trial
to the temper is avoided.
Whisky for Powder.
Among the principal consumers of
corn whiskey is the. British govern­
ment, which used, 124,000 gallons last:
year in the manufacture of smokeless
THYwrtipr si"
Hifl Mother Died Believing Her
Be AUvft
The saddest episode is thst Impwn
as the mystery of Johann Orth of
the most remarkable romances iii' the
dynastic history of Europe in this]cen­
tury, says the Strand Magazine. ''The
Archduke John Salyator of TuS^any,
a nephew of the Emperor Franci| Jo­
seph, had fallen in love with ani ac­
tress and singer, Ludmilla Hubel.wfiom
be married in spite of all family oppo­
sition, renouncing at the same tim49.aH
his rights, privileges and, rank'Mnd
assuming the name of Orth, after bne
of his castles. 'The romantic marriage
was celebrated secretly, but in a -..per­
fectly legal manner, by the registrar
of Islington, and was witnessed byHthe
consul-general of Austria in London.
Johann Orth next bought in 1891 aJflne
ship in Liverpool, which he renamed
Santa Margarita and so anxious ctiras
he to guard against the vessel bpAg
recognized that he stipulated thaiall
drawings and photographs of it 'sh|^ild
be handed over to him, and the$&he
burned with hie own hands. .More­
over, he caused all portraits and fixa­
tives of himself and his wife td be
'bought up at any price, and these were
likewise destroyed." We are giving
here only absolute facts. Shortly Aft­
erward the ex-archduke and his ifrife
set •sail for South America, andthe.Ves
sel was duly reported to have arrived
at Montevideo and departed for a des­
tination unknown. But from that fo­
ment every trace was lost of the ship
and all on hoard, no news as to cher
fate having ever been heard, although
many a search has been made along'the
coast by order of the emperor of Aus­
tria and his government. Adventur­
ers and treasure-seekers have beettjat
work, as it was well known thatJo
hann Orth had on board over a quar­
ter of a million pounds in specie it is
believed that he intended to have
bought an estate in Chile with /the
money, and to have settled -there, hrat
that the vessel foundered off C&pe
Horn during a tepific storm, wilch
raged off the coast shortly after jihe
ship had left. From time to time'Since
then the most startling rumors have
been set afloat about the missing ptfihce
having turned up, one being that^he
had been one of the leadera of
ure among his crew, burned his sliip,
landed on a lonely coast, etc. His own
mother, who died only a few months
ago, believed her son alive to her very
last hour, and expected his return. The
Swiss government is of a very different
opinion, and assumed the death of the
archduke, and paid over to Frau Orth's
next of kin a large amount of money,
which Johann Orth deposited, as a set­
tlement for his wife, with the Swiss
authorities before his departure, and
there is little doubt that the Santa
Margarita lies at the bottom of
sea, and that all on board perished.
Racine for a Wife.
In Lapland the crime which is pun­
ished most severely next to murder is
the marrying of a girl against the ex­
press wishes of her parents. When a
suitor makes his appearance he says
nothing to the girl, nor1 does she often
know who he is, but her parents inform
her that her hand has been applied for.
Then on a day appointed, the girl, her
parents and friends, meet together and
sit at meat, with the suitor and his
intended opposite to one another, so
that they can view each other's faces
and converse., freely. When the. feast
is over the company repair to an open
space, where "the race for a wife" is
to be run. The usual distance is about
a quarter of a mile, and the girl is
place a third of the distance in ad­
vance of the starting point. If she
be fleet of foot, and does not care for
the suitor, she can easily^ reach the
goal first, and if she accomplishes this,
he may never trouble her again. If,
on the other hand, she wishes to have
him for a husband, she has only to lag
in her flight, and so allow him to over­
take her. If she be particularly struck
with him and would signify to him
that his loye is,, returned she can run
a short distance, then stop, and turn,
and invite him with open arms.
The Kaiser Writes an Oratorio Book.
The current number of "Le Menes
trel" is responsible for the statement
that the German emperor has blos­
somed forth^ in one more direction.
This time he' has written the) libretto
of* a religious oratorio Which will be
produced at Berlin in the autumn. It
is not stated whether the Kaiser will
compose the music for his poem. It
is a.t any rate certain that among his
multifarious journeyingsvand occupa­
tions he cannot have had time to study
music theoretically or thoroughly. We
still have memories of his fearsome
"Hymn to Aegir,"* introduced to this
country, with dolorous effect, by Hay-'
den Coffin. But "Le Menestrel" is gen-
erally correct.—The London Mail.
Then He Knew.
^Professor (describing ancient Greek:!
theater)—"And it had no roof." Junior
(sure he has caught the
5
a mistake)—"W'hat
professor inu
vdid
these: *do~ sir,51
when:Jt rained ?"Professor^ (taking:
off-his glasses and parsing a moment)|
BAYS EAETH ISBOUND
AND HE MAY BE THROWN INTO
PRISON.
ted Condition of Affairs In England—
Sir John Gorst Accused of Intention
to Teach False Precepts—City of Forts
mouth. Excited.
It is painful to read that Sir John
Gorst, the head of the British educa­
tional department, is in serious trouble
and^has been threatened by Mr. Eben­
ezer Breach and other taxpayers of the
city of Portsmouth, in the kingdom of
England, with prosecution under the
"imposters' act." It seems that the
3chools of Portsmouth have been teach­
ing the damnable and heretical doc­
trine that^t'he earth is a sphere. Sir
John's attention has been called to this
dissemination of seditious and trea­
sonable doctrine, hut he has refused to
correct "the abuse. Ebenezer and his
friends know, of course, tha,t the earth
is as flat as a pancake. They have
been patient with.Sir John, and d,ay
after day have allowed the false teach­
ing regarding the shape of the earth
to go on, but can stand it no longer,
they say, to see their children cor­
rupted with this rilost "heretical doc­
trine," as the complainants call it in
this protest. Sir John Gorst has many
political enemies, and even -his politi­
cal friends do not always agree with
him but the depth of his depravity was
not known until he was unmasked by
Mr. Ebenezer Breach and his friends.
Sir John may cavort about parliament
and.deceive some people, but when he
runs up against a body of respectable
British taxpayers, the bulwarks of the
throne and the guardians of the consti­
tution, it is another matter. Such new­
fangled ideas as that of the earth be­
ing a sphere he may impose upon the
frivolous persons who riot in the un­
godly city of London,..but not upon the
taxpayers of Southampton. Ebenezer
and his friends mean business, and
have served formal'"tibtice upon the
Portsmouth school board that the
teaching that the earth is a sphere
"cannot be allowed to continue under
any circumstances, plea or explanation
wJh^teyer/A-r andvtha£. it .must*be aban
for schism by the law provided." After
having stamped out the dastardly doc­
trine in the schools of Southampton,
the committee announce that they will
next go up to London and bring the
London school board before the courts,
being well advised and informed that
the same doctrine regarding the shape
of the earth is also taught in the Lon­
don schools. Sir John, meantime, is
to be brought to court and prosecuted
under the "imposters' act" aforesaid.
Now, the "imposters' act" is a part of
the British constitution, probably—
no one knows what is, and what is
not apart of that nebulous thing—and
provides certain pains and penalties,
3uch as forfeiture of estate and burning
at the stake, if recalcitrant. Ebenezer
and his friends are worthy and reputa­
ble citizens and mean business. If
necessary they will light the fires of
Smithfleld again for the wicked Sir
John. At last,accounts Sir John was
still at large, and so was Ebenezer.
Women of the Orient.
A recent visitor to the Philippines
says that some of the women of the
island are remarkably pretty, having
big, languishing jeyesand an abun­
dance of long. hair. This they fasten
up with a big gold pin and then adorn
with flowers. They db not wear hats,
but use sunshades, and do so very co
quettishly they wear very dainty
shoes, but do not wear stockings. They
are distinguished by grace of figure
and movement, though according to
our ideas not especially by refinement
of habits, for both 'women .and chil­
dren smoke huge cigars and indulge
in betel chewing. It is their custom
to keep the thumb nail of the right
hand very long, as this assists them in
playing their favorite instrument, the
guitar. The use ofithe fan originated
in China and sprang from the follow­
ing incident: A royal princess,, very
beautiful, was assisting at the feast of
lanterns, her face covered with a mask,
as usual. The excessive heat com­
pelled her to remove it, and in'order
to guard her features from the common
gaze she moved it quickly to and fro
in front of her face, thus simultaneous­
ly hiding her charms and cooling her
brow. The idea was at once adopted
throughout the kingdom.
How to Get Beer In Wales.
The well-known attorney, J. Willis,
Gleed of Topeka, is going to Wales on
business, and Howell Jones has been
instructing Mr. Gleed "how to ask for
two glasses of beer in Welsh." This is
th$ proper version: "Byddweh mor
garedig a dyfod a dau wydriad or dioc}
oreu sydd genych."—Kansas City Jour­
nal.
No Trouble at All.
Grimes—-J should think it would be
awfully hard to write a sea tale. Tin
son—Not at all. You only want to
speak .of laicloud no bigger,j- th£n a
man's hapd\ and to say that the boat
was.as .far off as you could toss "a bis-t
liiiulC^Bbston Transcript.
FwMmi,
A MUMMY MYSTERY.
Remains Found of Woman of Glsantia
Proportions.
There has just cbme into the pos­
session of the Historical society of
Kansas a most interesting and remark­
able relic of the days when giants trod
the'earth. The relic consists of the
mummified body of a woman of gigan­
tic proportions, in ..whose arms are
clasped the remains of an infant. The
bodies were found in a cave in the Yo
semite valley. There was no clew to
the age of the mummy, and so far no
authority on archaelogical subjects has
been bold enough to go oi\ record with
ai^ opinion regarding the probable time
in the earth's history when the mother
and babe were living beings. The in­
formation so far gathered is somewhat
meager, although those most interested
in the matter are doing their best to
arrive at some plausible theory. Her©
is the signed statement of the histori­
cal society, which throws as much light
on the subject as it is possible to obtain
at present: "We have no history of
the relic, excepting that G. F. Martin
dale, whose home is at Scranton,Osage
?ounty, Kan., left it as a temporary
deposit with the Historical society. He
reported it as having been found by a
p&rty of prospectors in a cave in the
Yosemite valley, in California. He
says he is endeavoring to trace Its his­
tory. Our best local authorities on
matters of this kind are uncertain as
to the probable origin of the relic.
The mummy \is 6 feet 8 inches in
length, liy2 at the shoulders, and 18
inches across from elbow to elbow, ap­
pearing very narrow for the height.
There is a necklace about the neck,
consisting of perhaps a leather cord, in
which two or three slender white teeth
are inserted. Coarse black hair shows
in the wrapping about the neck. The
shroud has the appearance of a very
thin piece of buckskin, badly worn
and frayed about the edges, covering
the head like a hood, and enveloping
the greater part of the body.1 It seems
to have been divided below the knee
and drawn up about the leg and laced
at the foot and ankle. The color of the
mummy is a dusty gray, much like an
old chamois skin, which has been wet
and long exposed to weather and y?herfr
pearance of old putty."—^Pittsburg
News.
THE FLAIL.
Its Sound Has Departed from Nearly
All the Farm's.
The sound of the flail has departed
from nearly all the farmsteads and the
calling of the thrasher has gone with
it, says Notes and Queries. Yet for
eome time after harvest was over there
was no more familiar sound in the
country places than the "thud! thud!"
of the flails as they fell upon and beat
out the grain on the barn-thrashing
floors. There remain, however, some
sayings in which "like the thrasher"
occurs, but the use of these grow less
and less. A short time ago some
friends were in a country place where
a part of the thrashing is done with
the flail. A couple of the implements
were hanging on the barn wall and a
heap of straw was on the floor. The
use of the flail ^as explained and
demonstrated for the benefit of those
who had never seen this "weapon" of
husbandry. Incidentally it may be
mentioned that the sayings, "Sings
like a thrasher" and "Works like a
thrasher," came from that occupation,
and are "as old as Adam." "It looks
easy enough that can't be very hard
work," said one of the company, a re­
mark which led to the flail being put
into his hands for a try at the "easy
work." One swing was enough for
the amateur, for t'other end" caught
him
lia.
friendly whack" which probably
he will remember to the end. It also
doubtless impressed upon his memory
that ''working like a thrasher" as he
had done had not led to "singing like
a thrasher." "You'll get a good flail­
ing." Has any reader seen the flail
employed as an effective weapon?
When used by an old hand there is no
standing against It.
More MaKnificent Than Niagara.
A correspondent writing in The
Spectator says the Gersoppa falls, on
the Sharavatti river, in South Kanara,
India, are larger and more magnificent
than Niagara. He says: "The river
is 250 yards wide the clear fall is 830
feet. The Gersoppa falls in the rainy
season are incomparably finer than
Niagara in every respect. The roar of
the falling waters is simply terrific
the whole earth shakes, and the thun­
der is so great that it completely
drowns the human voice When I vis-^
ited Niagara and told my American
friends about Gersoppa they replied
with polite incredulity, 'We never
heard of Gersoppa.' I replied, *Make
your minds easy the people at Ger-
soppa have never heard of Niagara.' fellows to go with her. Take off exces
If Niagara, could see .Gersoppa she
would wrap he^ head in a mist." =..
Slaughter ofL Birds.
On6 million five hundredf and thirty
feight thousand seven hundred and thir-
1
Wdght of Pa
ell hi Hogs.
We are told and impressed by thecaJ
thorfties in the provision trade tftati
there I» HO possible chance that heavy
hogs will be in favor for a considerables
time, it'- ever, again, says Texas Stoclcj
Journal, TMs view we are informed?
iS' based eppon the requirements of con-
sumers. amd the retail and export trade.
Formerly- a packing hog was heavy at
350' to 45(? pounds now packing hogs
are1 considered heavy at 50 to 250
pounds. Packers get all the lard they,
can' possibly handle witnout buying a
singler lard tog The best marketable
weight now i» afrocrt 150 pounds, and'
the best all-around porker does not ex­
ceed 225 pounds- although that weight
Is too heavy to-day to sell well. Farm-.
ers who make their hogs too heavy to
suit the buyers must expect to get low
prices, as the light weights bring the
most money. The1 sides are manipu-'
lated into breakfast bacon, canvassed
and sold' for 8 to I01 cents per pound,!
shoulders converted Into "California,
hams"" and retailed for 10 cents per
pound the hams? are small and sett
readily for 12% cents, and some with.
an extra finishing- touch retail for asf
much as 15 cents- per pound. Then,
isn't it strange, taking into consider-1
ation the above facts, that our farmers'
and feeders will continue to feed after'
their pigs are thoroughly ripe for mar­
ket, while with every breath the paek-r
er is saying to them, "If you feed an­
other feed, I'll dock you." What is to
their interest, the same is to our inter­
est. Then it behooves us to reach out
for quick, growthy, fatten at any age
pig, and six months after the pig is?
farrowed turn him over to the packers,,
who in return will pay you more than
if you had fed it seven months, so far
as profit is concerned.
Iiangshans
J. W. Wale', in an address befor®
Missouri poultry-raisers, said:
I have a friend who has been raising
Light Brahmas for several years and.
has been very successful in the big
shows with them, who told me last
year that he used to think no fowl
laid as well in winter as the Light
Brahma, but after trying the Lang
shan for four years he said they laid,
a great deal better, in the winter thant
the Brahmas. He also said he did not
believe there was any kind of a fowl in.
that-^equaled
Langshan as a winter layer.
Judge C. A. Emry, after breeding
them with several kinds for about
fourteen years, says they are the best
winter layers of any he has tried. I
could name a number of others who
have tried them with other fowls as
egg, producers and whose testimony
would be in favor of the Langshan.
There are but few instances where the
testimony is the other way. As sit­
ters I don't think I have found as
good in any other breed. They do not
get frightened while being handled
very seldom break their eggs, and as
a rule are not hard to break from,
sitting. They are good mothers, but a 1
great many wean their chicks too soon,
but they go to laying as soon as the
chicks are weaned.
The Langshans are very hardy, do
not bag down at 2 or 3 years old and
become worthless. I have some Lang- I
shan hens that were hatched nearly
five years ago, and they are some off
the best layers, sitters and mothers on.
the place.
Transmitted I?qalne Infirmities.
Hereditary entailment is not con­
fined to deformity, says Newark Call.
It is now certain that all defects are
transmissible and that accidental de­
formities frequently become perpeta
ated in the progeny. But it is not
alone physical deformity that may be
entailed. Habits, peculiarity of tem­
per, behavior, and many singularities
are transmitted with unerring certain­
ty. Few trotting sires or trotting dams
produce speed uniformly, but the trot­
ting "instinct and the disposition to do
nothing but trot is so strongly hered­
itary in so large a proportion of the
progeny that, the absence forms the
exception to the rulfe. The whole prob­
lem of heredity presents the most in­
teresting phenomena. The lessons that
are being learned from the wonders it
presents to the material universal are
of incalculable value to the scientific
breedef. To him heredity, lias a wide
significance. He takes advantage of
the'hereditary tendencies toward gooti
qualities and works' from those ^'that
bring bad forms and compromising
progeny.
Exercise the Young Pigs.—It fre­
quently happens .that at this season of
the year, or earlier, when the brood
sow is too fat that the young pigs be­
come very fat and11 victims to the
thumps,va disease which, like cholera,
is practically incurable, says Wallace's
Farmer. Unlike cholera,- however, it
is not difficult tb avoid and the method
is not medicine, but by compelling
them to" take exercise. Drive the sow
out of'her lot and compel the littla
sively fatteningy? food, let her have
I plenty of grass,4 oats, bran and exr,
I ercise and thumps will not trouble'
them. One likes to admire those sleel
1 fat fellows that would make the moutl
of an, epicure4 water- and brin^ to re-'
ty-eight is the precise number of birds |membrance the gentle Eli's essay on
estimated by the British consul in roast pig, but it is not profitable tc*^*
Venezuela to lmve been killed last year
in sucJl
proyide aigrettes for ladies' ixatei, /'give-^hose bloated'milk.
drgains^ Better take